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kid64··on Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins
When would prefer for it to have been released?
kid64··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
An obvious pivot would be to Codeberg. Is there some missing feature there rendering such a move less desirable than I imagine?
kid64··on Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins
The whole idea of dependence on recurring natural fires always seemed suspect to me.
kid64··on Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)
That's a 404
kid64··on Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)
He presumably wanted the result to be good.
kid64··on Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
Yes, but the claim is presumably that this one is good.
kid64··on Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image
I've been long fascinated by the rolling release model. But aren't you guys worried about supply chain attacks? Seems those on the bleeding edge serve as canaries in the coalmine for the rest of us.
kid64··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
Grep'ing doesn't use tokens, it uses grep.
kid64··on WebUSB Extension for Firefox
So what is an example use case where you'd prefer to do X without using this particular tech?
kid64··on Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
"Dear Claude, please create an eztensive testing suite for this app. Love, cobertos"
kid64··on Take better notes, by hand
I think the accepted remedy is to root the device, then use a root-level firewall to prevent it from phoning home. But Boox can of course snap their fingers and undo that any time, and rooting comes with its own set of security concerns. In any case, you're strongly advised to never enter a password on the device using the on-screen keyboard, and rotate any credentials you may have already entered.
kid64··on Take better notes, by hand
It's not about their Chineseness. They're notorious, unapologetic GPL violators with a poor track record when it comes to privacy and general integrity (paying for reviews, etc)..

See:

- https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/onyx...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/ereader/comments/13e8bw3/psa_onyxbo...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23735962

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31247982

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37665408

- https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F0...

etc...

kid64··on Take better notes, by hand
I checked it out and they conspicuously omit the thickness from the FAQ "dimensions" answer. They also avoid any photos of the product that clearly show the thickness. So, guessing it's pretty thick?
kid64··on Take better notes, by hand
Yeah but do you trust those guys?
kid64··on MAUI Is Coming to Linux
Actual source (there are many others): https://github.com/dotnet/maui/discussions/29483
kid64··on Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts
In the OP's country, dog food may be considered less desirable than people food.
kid64··on I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me
I'm glad fer you too.
kid64··on Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025)
What an egregiously disingenous piece of legislation. Not surprised.
kid64··on I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me
I think the author's sentiments can be neatly summarized as follows: "I wish I didn't live in a society".
kid64··on Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
Sorry, the lack of vision I referred to related to Obsidian's leadership -- unserious D&D kids largely unconcerned with usability, performing security theatrics with sync e2ee while their users data is regularly at risk of mass exfiltration via their insanely dangerous community plugin ecosystem.

The on-screen appearance of the feature you're referring to may be visual and coherent, I'm just pointing out that users frequently cite theoretical or anticipated benefits of this feature, not real ones.

kid64··on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
I agree with your first couple of sentences. But the YouTube bit is dangerous misinformation. You cannot match any credible university education by watching YouTube.
kid64··on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
Exactly, Macs were more of a yuppie toy for people that didn't need real computers.
kid64··on Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude
The thesis here seems to be that delimiters provide important context for Claude, and for that putpose we should use XML.

The article even references English's built-in delimiter, the quotation mark, which is reprented as a token for Claude, part of its training data.

So are we sure the lesson isn't simply to leverage delimiters, such as quotation marks, in prompts, period? The article doesn't identify any way in which XML is superior to quotation marks in scenarios requiring the type of disambiguation quotation marks provide.

Rather, the example XML tags shown seem to be serving as a shorthand for notating sections of the prompt ("treat this part of the prompt in this particular way"). That's useful, but seems to be addressing concerns that are separate from those contemplated by the author.

kid64··on Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
Only in 2nd-brain mythology, which holds that you'll discover connections between your notes that you didn't realize was there. I think it started as eye candy to confuse prospective users considering Roam Notes. They later did something similar with their "Canvas" feature. So, these are features you get with their lack of coherent vision, rather than basic usability and a safe plugin ecosystem, neither of which Obsidian plans to deliver..
kid64··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened
Who still reads Ars Technica? Has been primarily slop and payola for some time now.
kid64··on Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'
$50k and €30 are of the same order of magnitude.
kid64··on Termux
I remember hearing something about the circumstances of that transfer, do you have a link/reference. Also, when you run Syncthing (the normal build I assume, without the Android wrapper), are you able to reliably prevent Android from killing it?
kid64··on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
Or several times more, in some cases
kid64··on Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores
Dairy Queen
kid64··on I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue
Ooh. That's a dealbreaker, ladies!
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